Digital BW, The Print

sdmey4@... wrote:

>
>Inkjetmall handles the piezography products and I'm sure does much better 
>than Cone editions these days. 
>

Hey.. Ready for your Homer Simpson moment?

Go READ the first link I posted!

http://www.inkjetmall.com/store/our-mission.html

Here, since you are obviously to busy or unable to find the first 
paragraph, I will quote the relevant text.

"inkjetmall.com is an online resource for digital printmakers. We are an 
extension of Cone Editions Press. "


Cone Editions owns InkJetMall!  As goes Cone Editions, so goes InkJetMall.

> I don't have any 
>worries about inkjet mall and the piezography line of BW products.
>
Then you're probably being foolhardy, since that that line and IJM are 
apparently owned by Cone Editions.

>my .02
>Keith, do you really think this was important news that had to be posted?
>Looks like off topic spam to me.
>
Give me a break. It's not spam, it's public record information about a 
business involved as a supplier of software and supplies to the Digital 
B&W printing market. If the company is in financial trouble that pushes 
them into Chapter 11, buyers have every right and NEED to be aware of that.

> Mud slinging like this is just so wrong and 
>doesn't help anyone. 
>  
>

No, this isn't mudslinging.  Mudslinging would involve me expressing my 
personal opinion about Mr Cone. 

As for his veracity, let's hope for his sake that  his creditors don't 
bring those of us who have dealt with Jon professionally in as witnesses 
- the veracity of any representations he makes to the court might then 
be called into question. 

I personally can vouchsafe that Cone promised numerous returned calls 
that he never made back when he WAS shopping InkJetMall around for 
sale.  The man returned my call once and we agreed to speak again.  I 
called back several times and he never called back nor spoke to me 
again.  He lied about returning the calls for whatever reason.  Plain 
and simple. 

By chance Steve, you wouldn't be using the Piezography B&W or Piezotone 
inks?  If so, I'd say you just are worried that this will go badly and 
don't want the negative news posted because it might lower Cone's sales 
and hurt the value of IJM and his product lines when assessed as part of 
the Chapter 11 process.  Know what I say?  TOO BAD!  That's not why 'm 
posting this info, I'm posting it because buyers and potential creditors 
and vendors have a NEED to know this before entering in further 
arrangements and contracts with him/Cone Editions.  That's why 
Bankruptcy filings are public record.

If Cone had wanted to be upfront about this, it could have been made 
clear as most public companies do, by an announcement or press release 
that this was a possibility BEFOREHAND.  It bothers me that any vendor 
has so little respect for their customers and vendors that they would 
not publicize this beforehand.  When airlines or Polaroid have headed to 
Chapter 11 they announce it beforehand..  Cone hasn't even announced it 
YET, after the fact.  As much as Jon may have been a pioneer in this 
area, as much as I am sad to see this happen, I also wouldn't personally 
trust a business run by someone who lied to me and who is not being 
fully open and upfront about this.

Two+ years ago, Jon was brave enough to post here and call me a liar 
when I reported what many knew, that he was looking for a buyer for 
IJM.  If he wants to contradict me and call me a liar now, he knows 
where to find me.. Looks like the big ol' universal Kharma up and bit 
him on the butt.

 
Keith Krebs

"Just some guy," caretaker of the Multiverse's largest EPSON printer 
User Community (highly recommended by Vogon Poets and MegaDodo 
Publications), at:
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"For the rest of you out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together 
guys"